Cleaning apparatus



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CLEANING APPARATUS. APPucAnou FILED JAN. 5. 19m.

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ATTORNEY CLEANING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 6, 1920.

Application filed January 5, 1918. Serial No. 210,531.

To all whom it may concern:

e it known that we, RAFFAELE MORELLI and JOSEPH SoLIMEo, subjects of the Kin of Italy, residing at the borough of Brook yn, city of New York, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cleaning Apparatus, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

Our invention relates to clothes cleaning apparatus and more particularly to automatically operated brushes used for this pur ose.

eretofore in the cleaning or pressing of clothes, the cleaner or presser has used a cloth moistened with a cleaning fluid such as naphtha, benzin or the like to rub the dirt or grease spots from the clothes, and he has used the ordinary clothes brush or whiskbroom to brush the dirt and dust off. An object of our invention is to avoid these manual operations of cleaning and brushing and to perform them automatically and in a single operation, if necessary.

Our invention comprises an automatically rotatable brush adapted to be moved into and out of operable position on the pressing table, the brush being hollow and containing means for holding a cleaning fluid that can be discharged into the brush at Will. The invention also comprises means for moving the brush into and out of operation when it is positioned on the table.

he entire cleaning apparatus may be moved from one table to another when it is so desired, or it may be moved so that the brush will operate in various positions on the table.

Other more particular objects of our invention will appear from the following description.

We shall now describe the embodiments of our invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings and shall thereafter point out our invention in a claim.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of our cleaning apparatus showing the brush on the pressing table, the dotted lines indicating the brush in lowered position.

Fig. 2 is a plan view.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged end elevation of the rotatable brush.

taken on the line y.y of Fig. 4.

In the embodiment of our invention illustrated in th the cleaning aphaving legs 2 he table is prowith a flap 4 and hinges 5, the fia being adapted to be raised above the tab e for the reasons hereinafter set forth.

A rotatable brush 6 is mounted on a hollow arm 9. The arm 9 is pivoted on the shaft 10 of a motor 8 which is secured to a platform 11. This platform is provided with rollers or bearings 12 so as to allow the platform to move. The brush 6 is rovided at each end with a table-rest 7 he brush 6 is rotated by means of a belt 22 located inside 9 and fixed about the shaft of the motor 8 and a wheel 21 secured to the shaft 20 of the brush. The hollow arm 9 acts also as a guard for the belt. A table rest 7 is provided with an angular slot 27. The shaft 20 0f the brush 6 rotates in bearings 26 located at the top of the angular slot 27 and held normally in position there by means of a spiral spring 28 hearing at one end against the bottom of the slot 27 and at other end against the bearing 26. B this means the brush is normally and w en not operating kept above the table.

The rotatable brush 6 is provided with bristles 15 secured to outer cylindrical shell 16. This shell has a side frame 16 and is secured to shaft 20 by means of a screw 16. A cylindrical tube or tank 17 is located in the shell 16 and is adapted to rotate therein. This tube or tank 17 is used as a reservoir for cleaning fluid. Rows of perforations 18 are provided in the inner tube 17 and are in almement with rows of perforations 19 provided in the outer shell 16. The shaft 20 of the brush 6 is hollow. A pipe 23. is adapted to rotate in such shaft and is fixed at one end to the tank 17. A re movable cap 24 is provided at the other end and a hand wheel 25 is secured to the pipe. When it is desired to supply cleaning fluid to the bristles of the brush the handwheel 25 is turned slightly thus rotating the tank 17 until the perforations 18 therein register with the perforations 19 in is. J 1 the ou r s ell. en these perforations brush by means of the belt 22. To bring reg! en outlet is provided for the cleanthe rotating brush into operation, the opiggifitl b'o the biistles 1 5. When enough enator presses the shield '13 down against fluid has been passed through the the tension of the springs 28 in the slots perforations the handwheel is again turned 27 in the table-rests 7, and the brush is lowto bring them out of register. Indicating erod until it contacts with the article. When means may be provi ed for showing such pressure is released the brush immewhether the erforations are in register or diately rises out of operating position. 5 When e tanklL-i? is empty, it can be When the operator has finished his brushing refilled b removing the cap 24 and nouroperation he can move the brush to one end ing the uid through the pipe 23. When of the table or he can lower the brush to the I, the cap 24 1 s rcplatform 11. It will heseen that :by means Thebr K -is, rovided with a shield of .our invention the brushing1 and cleaning mea *ation can be aocontplishe in a few secon not in use the brush would norondsin a sanitary and thorough fashion. wally be in the I osition shown in dotted It is obvious that various modifications lines in l W ere it rests on the platmaybe made in the constructions shown form 11. When the operator desires to and above particularly described within the the'forush, he raises the flap 4, lifts the principle and scope of our invention. bfiush b thehqgldle swinging it abou We claim:

t e eha of t e :IIlOtOI 8 until it is abov A rotatable brush comprising an outer the table. The flap 4 is hen dropped an bristle holding shell, an inner fluid containthe brush is lowered until the tablerests 7 ing tank rotatable within such outer shell p n the table. The bristles of the brush perforations in both the outer shell and 25 .111 time p ositionare above the table and the the tank, means for bringing such perforaarticle .to be brushed or cleaned is slid under tions into and out of register, and means to the brush. The current supply for the rotate the brush. notor is then turned on bly means of a In testimony whereof we have afiixed ,swgitoh (not shown) suitnfb y located, or our signatures.

rneans rnay be rovided whereby the currentis a tornatieally turned on when the RAFFAELE MORELLI.

brush is pressed down, thus rotating the JOSEPH SOLIMEO, 

